VINCE REMBULAT/The Bulletin/

Students at Lincoln Elementary School are learning to make healthier eating choices.

They can thank the Give Every Child a Chance After School Advantage Program led by academic manager Mosha Lehouillier who helped tend to the new school garden installed towards the end of the last school year.

Over the summer, she and her father took care of watering and weeding the garden on a regular basis. The result of that were ripe-for-the-picking egg plants, chili peppers, bell peppers, tomatoes, and zucchinis, to name a few.

“The garden, as a first-time project, had some hits and misses,” Lehouillier said on Friday.

The corn crop, for example, grown along the fence were casualties of the heat.

GECAC students did the harvesting, in turn, learning which produce was ripe. More importantly, they learned how to cook from what they picked from the garden.